Austria
Would it be possible to make more info on the current state of online updates from tvdb available to skins? Currently you only get a loading bar indicating that ... well ... something is happening.
There is no indication whatsoever how long this process will take or what is happening atm. I had a few friends over recently and while browsing through the series the ui became slow and the loading bar appeared. The first reaction from them was: "hey, why is everything slower and what does that loading thingy mean?"
You could create a String property for skins called e.g. "#TVSeries.Update.Status" and "#TVSeries.Update.Progress". The first one would show messages like
,eventually you could make more detailed update info (#TVSeries.Update.Details) available as well. The "Progress" property would be an estimate of the current update progress.
Hope this can be added within one of the future version...
There is no indication whatsoever how long this process will take or what is happening atm. I had a few friends over recently and while browsing through the series the ui became slow and the loading bar appeared. The first reaction from them was: "hey, why is everything slower and what does that loading thingy mean?"
You could create a String property for skins called e.g. "#TVSeries.Update.Status" and "#TVSeries.Update.Progress". The first one would show messages like
- Looking for new local files
- Downloading xml files from thetvdb.com"
- Comparing online data with local data
- Downloading updated series
- Downloading updated episodes
- Downloading updated banners
- Updating database entries
- ...
,eventually you could make more detailed update info (#TVSeries.Update.Details) available as well. The "Progress" property would be an estimate of the current update progress.
Hope this can be added within one of the future version...
